On the afternoon of October 4, 2024, a shooting at the Ramada by Wyndham on Two Bridges Road in Fairfield, New Jersey, left 28-year-old Mohammad Sahariar Islam dead. Police got a 911 call about a disturbance at about 12:27 p.m.; officers found two male hotel employees with gunshot wounds. Mohammad Sahariar, a Fairfield resident, was located unresponsive in the manager’s office and was pronounced dead at 1:35 p.m. A co-worker shot in the chest survived and was taken to a local hospital in critical condition; that survivor later provided information identifying the shooter as a guest who had stayed at the hotel the previous night.

Investigators from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force and the Fairfield Police Department focused on that lead. On October 9, 2024, 39-year-old Tyrone Malcolm of Middletown, New York, who had been staying at the hotel with his girlfriend, was arrested in New York. He was charged with murder, attempted murder, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and was being held in New York pending extradition to New Jersey. Reports say Sahariar and Malcolm did not know each other before the shooting.

Does anyone have information about Mohammad Sahariar Islam or the events at the Ramada on October 4 that could help investigators?